Sentences with phrase «as big a rival»

The company has overhauled its app and added automated ad buying tools in an effort to hold onto users and advertisers as bigger rival Facebook Inc introduces Snapchat - like features to Instagram.

Before Duke became a rival, after K arrived in the mid 80's, it was Lefty's teams vs Dean Smith's teams, and nobody at that time would have considered Duke anything near as big a rival as UNC.

We must keep going strong though as Liverpool could be as big a rival for it as City.

«The way they did it would have been OK in previous years and was really quite nice, but it happened at the same time as their biggest rivals had announced a signing in the most innovative way.

Mature women will always see younger women as their biggest rivals, regardless if they look amazing for their age, if they are smart, funny, and successful.

Line is the first company to go public with Facebook as its biggest rival.

That's not surprising - that competition is very weak, with perhaps Apple TV and the Chromebox as its biggest rivals if you're excluding the next generation of consoles like the Xbox One, PS4 and Wii U.

The Apple Watch, which sports many health - related features and apps, is seen as the biggest rival to Fitbit's trackers.

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 platform is common to any number of budget devices - including the smaller Nokia 5 - as well as its biggest rivals.

Not exact matches

The Gulf airline is the biggest A380 customer as its schedules offer more long - haul trips than its rivals.

Harley, which commands about half of the U.S. big - bike market, has seen its U.S. market share erode in recent years as it grapples with an ageing customer base, weak demand from younger buyers and discounts offered by rivals.

Though it suffered through a challenging 2016, the company bounced back by revamping its sales model and expanding in India, where it rivals Samsung Electronics Co. (samsung - ct) as the biggest vendor.

A Perth company that has become a global leader in the education software market is facing uncertain times as main rival Blackboard takes over two of its biggest partners.

Viasat CEO Mark Dankberg believes that it's unlikely that the kinds of smaller satellites that companies like SpaceX or rival OneWeb are looking to deploy in low orbit will be able to offer Internet speeds that are as fast as the bigger satellites in higher orbit.

The nation's largest retailer may be looking to play a bigger role in health care by acquiring Medicare insurance giant Humana — just as its rival Amazon is increasingly making moves in the sector.

As was the case in China and Russia before, it's merging local operations with the biggest regional rival, in this case Grab.

When Atlantic Canada's biggest lumber company, J.D. Irving Ltd., was assessed a duty of only 3 per cent, the Chronicle Herald described the sanction as an «opportunity» for the company to gain market share at the expense of its more heavily taxed Canadian rivals.

Was a rival's product release as big as you anticipated?

Baby Jogger's woes had been brought about, in part, by fierce competition from lower - priced rivals selling strollers through big - box stores and discount websites for as little as $ 99, less than half the price of a Baby Jogger.

When those companies grow and spend big money in their data centers, Intel stands to benefit — as long as they keep buying from the semiconductor giant and not rivals like Nvidia.

Many of the recent Big Pharma deals and acquisition proposals have been motivated by the companies» desire to lower their tax rate by acquiring a foreign rival and moving their headquarters overseas in a process known as an inversion.

Over the course of six seasons, viewers have watched the firm's partners battle for business, come to blows, grow big, get acquired, fall apart, relaunch as a start - up, lose key clients, gain even better clients — and most recently, merge with a rival.

Xiaomi is one of Apple's biggest rivals, along with other up - and - coming Chinese manufacturers such as Oppo, Vivo and Huawei.

Spotify is the biggest global music streaming company and counts tech giants Apple and Amazon as its main rivals.

The move from the world's biggest coffee chain also comes as smaller rivals such as Peet's Coffee and Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf also offer non-soy dairy milk alternatives.

They will also impact many of Wal - Mart's big retail rivals, such as Target Corp (TGT.N), and fast - food chains like McDonald «sCorp (MCD.N).

Now, the nation's largest retailer may be looking to play a bigger role in the sector by acquiring Medicare insurance giant Humana — just as its rival Amazon is increasingly making its own moves in the health - care market.

The company's biggest rival Burger King didn't seem to try as hard with innovation in 2013, with its biggest new product being the lower - fat Satisfries — or, for some unknown reason, Gratifries in Canada.

Though King wouldn't say whether Walmart had concrete plans to eventually make marketplace items available for services like in - store pickup of online orders, as it does for its own assortment, it's clear Walmart's 4,000 - some stores could give the company a big advantage over its main marketplace rivals, Amazon.com (amzn) and eBay.

The deal, which could be announced as early as Monday, marks the industry's first big consolidation in Southeast Asia, home to about 640 million people, and puts pressure on rivals such as Indonesia's Go - Jek, backed by Alphabet's Google and China's Tencent Holdings.

One of the biggest names in high - frequency trading wants to erect a communications tower in rural Kent as high as The Shard as it steps up the millisecond arms race against rivals.

Spotify, launched in 2008 and available in more than 60 countries, is the biggest music streaming company in the world and counts services from Apple Inc (AAPL.O), Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) and Alphabet Inc's < GOOGL.O > Google as its main rivals.

The deal will come as a blow to rival Tabcorp, which has TAB outlets in pubs and clubs across the country and still relies heavily on bets placed by customers in retail outlets despite a big improvement in its digital wagering revenue in recent years.

For China Southern, tapping a bigger foreign market makes sense as a way to catch up with domestic rivals like Air China and China Eastern that draw a larger share of their own revenue from overseas routes.

His efforts have at least stopped his company's steady decline in a highly competitive battle with low - price rival T - Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS), as well as bigger players Verizon (NYSE: VZ) and AT&T (NYSE: T).

If Teck does sanction that project, and copper prices improve, then it's possible that copper could rival steelmaking coal as its biggest moneymaker in the future.

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Spotify, launched in 2008 and available in more than 60 countries, is the biggest music streaming company in the world and counts services from Apple (AAPL.O), Amazon (AMZN.O) and Alphabet's < GOOGL.O > Google as its main rivals.

The Canadian Radio - television and Telecommunications Commission said on Thursday it is taking that step after a preliminary analysis found the big carriers «are charging, or planning to charge» smaller domestic rivals «significantly higher wholesale roaming rates» than U.S. peers such as AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc..

MUMBAI Infosys Ltd, India's second - biggest IT firm, plans to renew its focus on digital services as it looks to boost growth amid shrinking profit margins in its legacy business and rising competition from local and international rivals.

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Despite seeing gold output decline by 2 %, Newmont claimed the title of world's biggest bullion producer as it surpassed rival Barrick by 16,000 ounces in the first three months of the year.

SANTIAGO / VANCOUVER South America's lithium triangle is the lowest - cost place to produce the vital battery ingredient, but political hurdles will require Japanese and South Korean companies to make big investments to crack into the region as they chase Chinese rivals who have tied up resources in other parts of the world.

He settled a big lawsuit and just brought in Macau rival Galaxy as a backer, which could lead to fresh opportunities.

The person most often cited as the biggest federal rival to Kenney is former cabinet minister Peter MacKay, who still has not publicly declared his plans.

As industry job cuts top 200,000 worldwide, Exxon has kept its 75,300 - strong workforce intact with none of the sweeping layoffs seen at other oil companies, including its biggest U.S. rival Chevron Corp. «Exxon is just stronger financially than anyone else out there,» Brian Youngberg, an analyst at Edward Jones & Co. in St. Louis, said in an interview.

The development was an embarrassing twist for Uber, which had set up its San Francisco driverless - car rollout as a big event, especially as it competes with other tech rivals to bring autonomous vehicles to consumers.

By picking a price at the top end of the assumed range, Alibaba surpassed big American companies like the Walt Disney Co. and Boeing Co., leaving behind as well e-commerce rivals such as eBay and Amazon.

(CNN)- Ask Dylan Thompson to name his career highlights, and fans might expect to hear about one of his big moments as South Carolina's backup quarterback - like the time he led the Gamecocks to victory over rival Clemson, or when he threw the game - winning touchdown with 11 seconds left in the Outback Bowl.

Jupiter and Saturn are so big as to be circled by their own families of moons, some of which rival the other planets in size.